[vox-tech] a better scanf?? (C-programming question)

[Mike Simons]

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:42:09AM -0700, Andy Campbell wrote:
> Does anyone know of a better input mechanism from stdin than scanf?
[...] =20
> I basically need a scanf that doesn't halt the program?

Andy,

  It sounds like you are trying to read input from a user...

- Are you interested in keypress by keypress input?
  or will all inputs be a line followed by a return key press?


  Non-blocking with select/poll/busy-looping, reading into a=20
buffer, followed by sscanf when a return key is found will certainly
handle the second case... examples if that's what you want.
  Otherwise you will have to go with some curses or raw mode input
to get character by character input from a user, and opens a whole
can of worms...

    TTFN,
      Mike

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